The rise of Instagram and Facebook, which mute video audio by default, is forcing publishers to rethink their video creation strategies. NowThis and Fusion, for example, are creating video that's "volume agnostic", meaning that they can viewers can watch them with the sound on or off and still get the complete story. Similarly, because both platforms present video as part of a feed, publishers have to work harder to get user's attention. The post Facebook’s growing video power has publishers embracing the sound of silence appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at 'Digiday'
[ Digiday | 2015-06-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The majority of U.K. publishers receive a third of their traffic from third-party sites like Facebook and Google, according to an AOL report. This figure has surprised some publishers for being low. News UK's Hamish White believes publishers are either "underplaying their figures" because they... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-08-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Major brands launch VR projects as audience awareness and hype grow. The post Magazine Publishers Begin to Embrace Virtual Reality appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2016-07-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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“It really allows us to create a lot more video,” said Sean Holzman, of Bonnier, which has announced a partnership with Wibbitz. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2016-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The social network is a fact of life for any company that creates content. And the new reality will require lots of adjustment.The day many marketers and publishers have dreaded has arrived: Facebook is changing its algorithm to send less traffic to content sites.Read Full Story Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2016-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ever since Facebook introduced its Instant Articles feature last year, publishers have been wondering how the move would play out.The lure is clear: Facebook provides exposure and traffic despite the fact that Instant Articles do not link to the publishers' sites. For Facebook, A-list content... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2016-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Would you rather get your news directly from publishers or from your Facebook friends?If you've been feeling like Facebook is clogging up your News Feed with too many dispiriting news stories and not enough cute baby pictures, this one's for you: The social network is tweaking its algorithm yet... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2016-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook has published for the first time a list of “News Feed Values,” Facebook’s secret sauce of what makes the algorithm tick. The social network is adjusting the recipe with a heavy helping of content from friends and family, likely an attempt to get people to share more, given that there... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-06-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It's a fact: Most publishers rely on Facebook for a significant portion of their referral traffic. As such, they watch carefully as Facebook makes decisions about what kind of content to prioritize in the all-important News Feed product that is at the center of the social network.On Wednesday,... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2016-06-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Expect to see more pictures of your friends' pets and wedding announcements from extended family members in your Facebook news feed in the coming weeks. And expect to see less news. In yet another blow to publishers that have spent years building audiences to build traffic and revenue, the... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2016-06-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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As Facebook, Google, Apple and Snapchat compete for audiences and advertising, they're providing new outlets for publishers to distribute their news content, but some publishers have been bigger beneficiaries than others. BuzzFeed, CNN and The New York Times are three whose resources, scale and... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-06-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Two months after Facebook Messenger opened up a bot platform to outside companies, we took a look at the offerings from four developers -- Fusion, TechCrunch, Betaworks and Complex -- that created bots to interact with Messenger's 900 million users. Two months in, the bots are a work in... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-06-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Yahoo-owned Tumblr wants in on livestreaming, and it's taking a different route than Facebook or Twitter's Periscope app. Today the site is launching a live video feature that will let content creators and brands push their clips to Tumblr. But unlike live video on Facebook, Twitter and... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2016-06-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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News UK is ramping up its Facebook Live output from a couple a week to five a day. For the last six weeks, live videos have been largely done by its tabloid title, The Sun, where it blends stunt-style videos, like grown men plunging into ice baths, with highly visual footage, like filling up... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-06-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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For the past year or so, Facebook has conditioned advertisers and publishers to create video that can be understood without sound, as more clips that play automatically (and silently) when users scroll fill news feeds. With 100 million hours of video viewed every day and the explosion of... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2016-06-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook, which created Instant Articles a year ago to make publishers' articles load faster, is now giving that tool to brands. Intel is using the tool to post articles from its digital tech-focused publication, iQ. “This is a wonderful move to signal we’re not just an advertiser," Intel's... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-06-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism report also finds importance of TV news is waning among young peoplePeople are increasingly heading to social media such as Facebook for news, making it more difficult for publishers to attract and make money from readers, according to an influential... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2016-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The rise of social video has changed the game for publishers like Business Insider, which owns a Facebook-based property called Insider that generates more than 1.3 billion video views a month across all platforms. In April, Facebook updated its branded-content policies that opened a path for... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Economist has been experimenting with Facebook Live since January and, along the way, is trying to figure out how to translate its polished journalistic brand to the raw format. The publisher is still looking for that balance between "scrappy and slick," said deputy community editor Adam... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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German media's relationship with Google and Facebook has been fraught with tension. In the last nine months, eight of the 10 biggest publishing groups in Germany, including Axel Springer, have been pooling reader data from nearly 1,000 websites to create highly targeted, quality data segments... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-06-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House (PRH) Children’s is set to publish a series of books about Terraria, a video game that allows players to build their own environment. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-06-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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